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What is Biological Reproduction? Biological Reproduction, what is it? In nature, things duplicate. You wouldn’t be standing here right now if someone (your parents) hadn’t decided to propagate (such a lovely term isn’t it?). Well, in nature, there are a few ways that one can go about reproducing, sexual means being just one of them.…

Solar System motion is something we don’t think about much, and often the desktop models that we’ve been giving show the solar system as a static entity. In truth, nothing could be further from reality. The solar system is moving at a massive speed! In nature, as in life, nothing is still. All things…

Technology and Nature and their Implications upon our thinking Technology and nature, two contrasting worlds yet, yet now interwoven in our development. Many of us spend our time submerged in what I call the “technological landscape”. This being the world of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and endless consumer products. We rightfully call this the, “digital life”.…

Language and thinking, these two are intricately tied, and it is indeed true that our words affect our thought. Just consider language and how heavily it influences our perception. Depending upon the language you’ve been raised to speak and think and describe the world in, your perception of life may be very different than another…

Just as we are taught to read and write, we must be taught value nature. Past generations did not understand the full impacts of their actions, and the ecological values were not emphasized in their upbringing. We must educate the new generations and teach and show them how one piece of nature is tied to and fits into another, how one piece affects another.

Are environmental values innate or are they acculturated? If we had been born a native american 300 years ago, we’d likely have sat around camp fires late at night and heard stories about the great animal spirits, or about the gods that watch over the harvest or the motions of the celestial bodies. We would…

The Geologic Time Scale The geologic time scale is a way that scientists work to understand the timespan of our planet based on empirical and fossil-based evidence. This evidence is then used to try and place events in Earth’s history. Many things on our planet, such as the formation of mountains, or the draining of…

What is the Plastic Gyre In the Pacific Ocean? Unknown to many folks, there are incredible volumes of floating plastics in our oceans—so much so, that one patch of floating debris in the Pacific Ocean has been dubbed “garbage island” because of its size (estimated as 2x the surface area of Texas). These plastics get…

What is the Trophic System? The trophic system is a way that ecologists try to understand how nutrients move through the biosphere. What does that mean? Well–I’m made of material, plants are made of material, fungus on the ground is made of material. All of these are basically bio-chemicals, right? The chemicals in our bodies…

The Spheres of the Earth: Our Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Lithosphere, Atmosphere and Magnetosphere Earth is an extremely complex entity–what it is exactly, our definitions are always changing. Long ago it was thought that the earth was flat, than it was thought that the sun revolved around the earth, and today we believe certain things about our planet…